Rituals and Leisures

For my theory of "categorical reading" see:

http://vitaephilosophiadux.blogspot.com/2009/03/categorical-reading.html

Now for some actual examples (not a complete list):

Rituals

Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
The Discarded Image by C. S. Lewis
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Arts of the Beautiful by Etienne Gilson
Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T. S. Eliot
Introduction to Phenomenology by Robert Sokolowski
Being Logical by D. Q. McInerny
Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper

Leisure-"repeaters"

The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
The Science of Correct Thinking: Logic by Celestine Bittle
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God by Jean Leclercq, O.S.B.
The Essential Russell Kirk (Panichas, ed.)
Deception: The Invisible War Between KGB & CIA by E. J. Epstein
The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas (Pieper, ed.)
The Art of War by Sun-tzu